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Stifle the crazy? There are some crazies, but as ICANN’s decision makers move further and further away from the multi-stakeholders they are so swift to praise, the public forum is one of the few places that the Board actually hears from people. It’s the only place that all of the bits and pieces that make ICANN get together.

ICANN leadership is fixated on the IANA transition, it believes it’s the most important thing going, and they’re hoping to cement their power as an international organization on the talking-shop tour of global bureaucrats. So they’re cutting out what other people want to talk about in order to talk about what they want to talk about. They could have cut other places to make time, or just extended things. It’s not a particularly good sign.